The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-03-30
ALLIE ROWE CASE.
Breach of the immigration Ordi-
nance.
Convection of Captain Phillips and
Appeal.

Considerable interest was evinced in the
! proceedings at the Police Court yesterday
against Captain Phillips of the Hawaiian
/ brig Allie Rowe, who was prosecuted by
/ the Government tor a breach of the I'm
/ migration Ordinances. The case was called
| on adjournment at 10 o'clock a. M, when
/ His Excellency Attorney General Rosa APP
peared for the prosecution and Mr.. Thurs
ton for the defense. There were present
besides several prominent citizens, His Elk
/ celIencv George w. Merrill, United States
Minister Resident; Major J. H. WOde-
house, H. B. NJ. S Commissioner and Con-
sui General; NJ. Feer, French Commits
sioner and Consul and Senior Canavarro,
Portuguese Consul and Commissioner.
Hon. A. s. Cleghorn, Inspector General of
Immigrants, was also in attendance. Judge
Dayton presided.
The charge was read. 1t was generally
for a breach of the Immigration Ordinance
dated January IA, 1881, consisting of eight
sections, and more especially of sections l,
2 and 3, as follows:
First-On the arrival of any ship or yes
sci at any port OF this Kingdom, having
fifty or more immigrants on board seeking
employment in this Kingdom, said immi-
grants shall not be landed from any such
ship or vessel until permission to do SO
shall have been granted by the President,
or by an agent of the Board OF Immigra-
ton.
Second-When such permission is OBJ
tanned, the commanding officer of vessel
bringing such immigrants shall cause them
to be landed at such place provided by the
Board of immigration as may be indicated
by the Agent of the Board of Immigration
as aforesaid.
Third-Any officer of any vessel bring
ing immigrants as aforesaid who shall
land or allow any such passengers or inn
migrants to be landed, and any person
who shall aid or abet in the landing of
such passengers or immigrants without
the permission and otherwise than in the
manner as in the two preceding articles
provided for, shall be liable to pay a fine
not exceeding the sum of one thousand
dollars on conviction before any police or
district magistrate.
Mr.. Thurston objected. The defendant
could not be held to answer generally I'M
der every section of the Ordinance and
specifically under three of them. The
charge should be confined to these three
sections.
The Attorney General said the other sec
tions were simply explanatory of what
should be done when immigrants landed.
No penalty was attached to them. The
gravamen of the charge lay IN the viola
ton of the three sections specified, which
0rOvida6 for RI Of n ,1o,,oJf,,
Objection Overruled, and Captain Phil
lips pleaded not guilty.
w. o. Atwater, examined by the Attor-
ney General, deposed: 1 am Secretary of
the Board of immigration and it's executive
officer. Was so in March, 1887. There
was permission granted to Mr.. Cooke to in
troduce South Sea Islanders, but not for
this vessel. The following letter was then
handed to Witness
Honolulu, H. l., Sept 10, 1886.
ITO His Excellency w NJ. GIBSON,
President of the Bureau of Immi-
grafton:
Dear Sir-The undersigned would re-
spectfully ask of His ExcelIency Mr. Glib
son, President of the Hawaiian Board of
immigration, that Captain John Phillips,
of the Hawaiian brig Allie Rowe, be APP
pointed special agent for the Board OF
that he may act under prop
er authority i'll recruiting laborers in New
Hebrides group for Messrs. Hackfeld & Co.
and Messrs. Castle & Cooke, for plantation
use, during the present voyage of the AL
lie Rowe.
1.-The Allie Rowe can accommodate two |
hundred (2O0) people, and the undersigned |
would ask permission to recruit that num-
Der.
Yours respectfully,
"Pacifc Navigation COMPANY.